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- From: ferguson@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Ron &)
- Subject: Re: Racter!
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 01:06:10 GMT
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- Bruce Feist (Bruce.Feist@f615.n109.z1.fidonet.org) wrote:
- :
- : There's a program called 'TailSpin', which was a legitimate AI effort at Yale
- : during the 70's. It wrote stories about fictional animal characters, based on
- : knowledge representation (unlike Racter), was clumsier and much simpler than
- : Racter's. I don't know if source code is available anywhere.
- :
- : Bruce
- :
- A "micro" version of TaleSpin, which was written by James Meehan, can
- be found in *Inside Computer Understanding* by Schank and Riesbeck.
- This book also explains the representational framework used in
- TaleSpin (among other programs).
-
- I'm not sure if the code for the original program is available, but
- Meehan's doctoral dissertation, *The Metanovel: Writing Stories by
- Computer*, should be available from Yale.
-
- -Ron
-